always the knees

You need to verify your hypothesis if you want other people to build on it or everything will eventually crumble down like a house of cards.

if you’ve been running the latest windows 11 that’s very good luck

i have seen it in germany

I have learned to stop anywhere in a book and it helps a lot with chores. My condolences to your wife for her addiction.

I love wearing IEMs, but I know people struggle with them. Some people’s ears are interestingly shaped which makes iems difficult to use unless you find more specialized eartips. Some people also react almost allergically (or actually allergically, with swelling and all) to silicone eartips, though some also react poorly to hard plastic buds. There are different grades and types of silicone that might cause less of a reaction in your ears, it depends on the kind of aftermarket eartips you get. For me the first few weeks with IEMs caused some amount of pain as my ears adjusted to having something inside, and I don’t think there’s a way to tell when pain is no good and when pain means you can still adjust, but I adjusted and now they’re perfectly comfy. I also got wireless earbuds with silicone eartips late last year, and those still cause some amount of pressure regardless of how they’re inserted into my ears. The plastic housing just doesn’t fit my ears very well, and the nozzle is very shallow compared to wired IEMs. I had a similar thing going on with the airpods pro 2 and another set of chinese wireless buds, so I think that’s a curse that applies to me with a wide variety of wireless earbuds. Just my 2 cents.

hot and starchy

does not apply to people with paranoid schizophrenia and persecutory delusions. as someone who now takes meds against it, sometimes your own brain works wonderfully against you.

sure, but knowing the market for computers and computer parts there’s no way sony will offer a better deal in the first few years. also there won’t be many exclusive titles for the ps6, if any, especially not in the first few years.

recently a friend managed to snag a perfectly fine used ps5 for 200€. i think that’s a really nice price. buying used is just pretty epic for a lot of product categories.

wrestling licenses are a scam perpetuated by Big Wrestling! go out and wrestle someone today! nobody can stop you!

mattermost is meant for big corporations or governments

rules aren’t neutral or grown out of the void. people with biases and maybe even ambitions create them for specific purposes

EDIT: To quote Anatole France: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

one has a lot more power and uses a lot more space than the other

have you considered making shitty get rich quick scheme courses? you can buy my course on how to make courses with AI for only $999.99, discounted to $666.66 when I feel like it

hot water for heating is what you call radiators, which are pretty common around the world

didn’t google pixels only recently switch to ultrasonic scanners instead of optical ones? if your fingerprint scanner has to light up with a bright light, it’s usually less good

unless you use your fingerprint or face to unlock it (iphones and many androids have a key combo that quickly locks your phone and disables biometrics until you unlock it again with your pin or password. google it. useful in duress situations, but some manufacturers (in my case xiaomi) remove the feature. it doesn’t prevent the stealing of all available data on your phone in case your attacker happens to own a cellebrite device and takes your phone away for a few hours (almost nothing can prevent that, except grapheneos), but it prevents quick in-the-moment abuse.)

There’s a funny one-click tool here: https://github.com/Jellyfin2Samsung/Samsung-Jellyfin-Installer but I guess it’s not necessary anymore

i have similar thoughts and to me it’s really just about the balance of power. It could just as easily be a billionaire woman and a working man. I think in any kind of relationship (the broad term, not the dating term) each person needs to be accountable to each other. Good outcomes can still happen when somebody is unaccountable, but there is massive risk. And I go by the motto that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If somebody has a lot of power, they will use it for evil. One goal of society should be to make that impossible.